Gorgeous George, officially world’s most handsome man
... and it’s proved by a mathematical formula from Ancient Greece
HE has held on to his heartthrob status for decades.
And while George Clooney may be a little greyer than before, he is still able to beat off competition from younger celebrities – to be named the most handsome of them all.
The 56-year-old actor’s face has been found to have almost perfect dimensions based on the ‘Golden Ratio’, a mathematical formula of beauty dating back to the Ancient Greeks.
This states that if you take two measurements, one should be 1.618 times bigger than the other. A Harley Street plastic surgeon analysed eight measures of actors’ faces using a computer programme. A perfect 100 per cent overall score would mean all measurements fit the 1.618 ratio.
Clooney got the closest to perfection, scoring 91.86 per cent. He was just ahead of Bradley Cooper, 42, who got 91.8 per cent, and Brad Pitt, 53, on 90.51 per cent.
Former One Direction star Harry Styles, 23, got a total score of 89.63 per cent – although when looking at specific features, he had the most handsome eyes and chin.
David Beckham had the most perfectly shaped face, while Ryan Gosling can boast the perfect nose, based on its length compared to its width.
Dr Julian De Silva, who runs the Centre For Advanced Facial Cosmetic And Plastic Surgery in London, said: ‘George Clooney has beautiful facial symmetry and gets closer than any other man to having what the Greeks considered the perfect face.’
Kendra Schmid, professor of biostatistics at Nebraska University in the US, said the study ‘adds to the evidence that features in proportion with the Golden Ratio are considered more attractive’, adding: ‘Of course there is more to beauty than just geometry, but the Golden Ratio appears to play a large role.’